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DEFINITION: A discussion among family members, or room mates, which often turns into a full-blown yelling match, and which seems to occur every night whenever it's time to do the dishes.
Verboticisms
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Scotchfite
Created by: faithlessphil
Pronunciation: skotch-fyte
Sentence: Jimmy always ate quickly, trying to leave the table before the inevitable scotchfite broke out.
Etymology: Scotch from "Scotchbrite" (popular brand of dishwashing scrub pads) + fite (fight)
Dishagreement
Created by: graypenguin
Pronunciation: dish-uh-gree-ment
Sentence: The simple dishagreement turned into an all out war.
Etymology: dish + disagreement
Dishcord
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: dish-kawrd
Sentence: The family decided to buy a dishwasher after the dishcord following supper.
Etymology: Dish and cord from discord.
Dishteria
Created by: ericsimmons39
Pronunciation: dish-tear-e-yuh
Sentence: After dinner, my sister descended into the worst case of dishteria i've seen since thanksgiving 1994.
Etymology: Dish + Hysteria
Dishspute
Created by: Screamer
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Every night after dinner the family would erupt into a violent dishspute over the cleaning process
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
got my vote although I would have spelled it dishpute - FreeToys, 2007-09-06: 07:56:00
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Chorefare
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: chore-fare
Sentence: It was with a sense of foreboding that Ma entered the kitchen. Her offspring were in siege chorefare. Kelly was wedged in the pantry while Bob and Miranda heckled and jeered, threatening her with chopsticks until she promised to empty the dishwasher.
Etymology: chore + fare (of the hearty type) + warfare
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-06: 11:35:00
Great word with wider application. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-06: 18:11:00
Nice! Very Nice!! - skeeterzirra, 2007-09-06: 22:54:00
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Dishturbance
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: dish-TUR-bence
Sentence: I had to bang on the walls of my apartment because of the dishturbance next door, which happens every night at this time
Etymology: dish + disturbance
Repapdisment
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: ree-pepe-dis-mint
Sentence: i forgot so i have a mojor case of repapdisent
Etymology: regret/ paperplate/ disapoint
Choregument
Created by: mattbear
Pronunciation: Chore-gew-ment
Sentence: I mentioned it was Billy's turn to do the dishes, and suddenly we had a choregument on our hands.
Etymology: Chore + argument = choregument
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COMMENTS:
I like the change to any chore, not just dishes! - skeeterzirra, 2007-09-06: 22:48:00
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Dishmocracy
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: dish-MOCK-rah-see
Sentence: Generally rotation worked in Josh's house, but occasionally dishmocracy overruled the schedule which always threw things into a tailspin.
Etymology: Democracy (mob rule) combined with dishes.
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COMMENTS:
I think there's a little bit of mocking in there too - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-06: 11:46:00
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